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3 December 2020 William Blake

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

3 December 2020 Brendan Behan

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’

3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ‘I was beaten,’ he does not say ‘My men were beaten.’

3 December 2020 Anaxagoras

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

3 December 2020 Erich Fromm

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

3 December 2020 Rene Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

3 December 2020 Maya Angelou

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them.

3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

3 December 2020 Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Neutral men are the devil’s allies.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

3 December 2020 Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming men are haunted men.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

3 December 2020 Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

3 December 2020 Ayrton Senna

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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